Monday, May 28th, 2007
GOING, GOING by Philip Larkin. (January 1972)
I thought it would last my time -
The sense that, beyond the town,
There would always be fields and farms,
Where the village louts could climb
Such trees as were not cut down;
I knew there'd be false alarms
In the papers ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
There has been news in the last few days of some retirements. Dancing Bay is a member of the fairly exclusive club of horses that have won on the flat, over hurdles and fences. He has recently been retired after a career that started in 1999. He won 11 races ...
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